- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:30:43 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org, WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > Personally, I think MathML is so hopelessly verbose for hand authoring > that this really shouldn't be about enabling hand authoring > MathML-in-HTML5 but about enabling MathML-in-HTML5 (perhaps generated by > a future version of itex2mml or similar) to be served through content > management systems that are not built around a SAX pipeline or an XML > tree API or XSLT but are built as tag soup systems and simply cannot > guarantee well-formedness. I mean systems like WordPress and MovableType. Please don't confuse what these systems won't do with what they can't do. I personally wrote a system like this that maintained full well-formedness at all times despite TagSoup input. In fact, that was one of the easiest parts of what it did. See http://cafe.elharo.com/web/mokka/ Today's tools and libraries make it easy for anyone using anything more advanced than a text editor and FTP to publish well-formed documents. Tools that don't do that by default should be fixed. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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